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1 *BYM Sustainability Group*
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2
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3 (Set up by BYM at 2011 YM, now attached to MfS)
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4
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5 Annual report after 3 years, "review[ing] progress in 2016 and
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6 priorities for 2017"
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7
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8 Considerable action centrally, particularly wrt Friends House itself,
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9 and by providing help to local meetings through a new "project officer
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10 providing advice to local meetings on property matters, including
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11 sustainability".
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12
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13 Much harder to assess what's happening across AMs/LMs, as useful
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14 information gathering and analysis takes resourcing we don't have.
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15
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16 Important recent focus on "What's _Quaker_ about this concern? Where
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17 does it get its spiritual grounding?" Less guilt, more love!
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18 [ref. SCIAF wrt negative images]
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19
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20 We are asked to feed back to the group on what we think about the
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21 proposed "a project _Nurturing our Sustainability Ministry_, enabling
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22 and encouraging Friends to give expression to our sustainability
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23 commitment in many different forms". [Don Stubbings, ??? to contact
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24 Lis Burch, Clerk BYM Sust. Grp.]
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25
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26 Do we, as other AMs apparently do, report our annual energy usage (at
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27 least for 7VT and Kelso) to BYM along with our annual accounts?
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28
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29 An interesting echo of some of the STIR group's observations: The
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30 Canterbury Commitment was a commitment made by BYM, but has been
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31 adopted and acted on by AMs to widely varying degrees. What does it
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32 mean for a more central body to make a notionally binding commitment
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33 when the action involved has to be taken 'lower down'?
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34
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35 As the group was established in 2014 for an initial period of three
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36 years, there will now be a review group established to consider
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37 whether "this approach is the right way for our concern to be carried
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38 forward".
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41 *Opposition to Fracking*
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43 (From a meeting of Pendle Hill AM)
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45 We ask Britain Yearly Meeting to maximise involvement in ecumenical
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46 and interfaith structures that allow faith groups to have a strong
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47 united environmentalist voice on fracking, and that as Quakers
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48 nationally we take a public stance against fracking.
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49
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50 MfS supported this, and the minute makes a specific statement on
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51 behalf of Quakers in Britain in support of sustainable energy and in
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52 opposition to "unconventional approaches" to fossil fuel extraction,
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53 including fracking (expanded from the original to imply worldwide, in
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54 response to a mention about the role of Grangemouth in processing US
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55 shale gas).
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56
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57 There will be some kind of event on Pendle Hill on 6 May...
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60
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61 *Cadet Forces in Scottish State Schools*
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62
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63 QPSWCC has taken up this matter, and broadened it in the area of
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64 transparency and accountability
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65
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66 --------
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68 JYM Deadline 15 March
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70 --------
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71
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72 *MfS Annual Report*
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74 [Home groups: Scotland and Wales, only 8 people, half alternates]
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75
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76 Jocelyn's critique: It may seem that nothing is happening here, but
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77 the delivery of information in person has long-term ramifications
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78 which are hard to foresee.
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79
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80 "A conduit backwards and forwards"
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81
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82 Vision and prophecy -- where does that happen?
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83
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86 *Quaker Housing Trust*
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87
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88 Outstanding work, enormous almost-all volunteer effort: give them more
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89 money!
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90
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93 *Yearly Meeting Gathering*
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95 Anchoring: making time and space to digest, both food and
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96 mental/spiritual/emotional inputs, and no (centrally organised)
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97 meetings over lunch
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99 Two afternoons with 'all-age activities' (lots of facilities for sport
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100 at the venue)
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101
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102 Overall theme is 'Movement Building: Working with others to make a
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103 difference'
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106
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107 *Statement as "Response to the current international situation"*
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109 A good one, hope you've seen it.
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